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Posted: February 18, 2014 at 3:41 a.m.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, told a group of visiting Jewish-American leaders that it is time Israel fought back against those who boycott the Jewish state, dubbing them “anti-Semites.” Tarun J. Tejpal, an Indian investigative journalist and magazine editor known as a crusader for liberal causes, was charged in the Indian coastal state of Goa with raping and sexually assaulting a staff reporter in a November encounter in a hotel elevator.